by Menna van Praag
Lately I can't seem to find the patience, or the will, to write reviews. Especially for books that I don't like ( which unfortunately seems to be the rule lately). I feel emotionally drained at all levels, so my patience for half assed stories is even more reduced. This was my first story by the aut...
Since her parents’ mysterious deaths many years ago, scientist Cora Sparks has spent her days in the safety of her university lab or at her grandmother Etta’s dress shop. Tucked away on a winding Cambridge street, Etta’s charming tiny store appears quite ordinary to passersby, but the colorfully vib...
The Dress Shop of Dreams by Menna van Praag is a story of romantic love in a myriad of expressions and a set of intersecting lives. It's not quite the feel good book I expected, but it is a very quick, very easy read. A few stitches in a dress, a little magic - All it takes is a little suspension of...
After Murder by Death and Obsidian Blue's great reviews, I simply had to check this out from the library and give it a try. Thank you both so much for introducing me to this because I'd have never picked it up otherwise. The plot of this reminds me of Love, Actually (a movie I loathe, actually - s...
I wasn't really aware of magical realism as a (sub?) genre before reading Garden Spells (which I loved) and the premise of The Dress Shop of Dreams is not dissimilar to a mystery series I read, so I was intrigued from the moment I saw it. Obsidian Blue rated it highly and that was all I needed to b...
I am not going to lie. I was initially hesitant to start this book because I was worried that the character of Cora's investigation of her parents deaths was going to turn this book into a hybrid of magical realism/mystery thriller. I do think at times the book got pretty close to that edge, but the...
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